Visual Vertigo, Phantasmagoric Physiognomies: Joseph Roth and Walter Benjamin on the Visual Experience of Architecture by Stefan Koller

“…It shows that Benjamin’s specific contribution to this body of literature is the invention of a secular mythology, with a clear application to architecture in Benjamin’s focus on the ‘boundless interiorisation’ of glass and iron construction. …”
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L’humanisation des hybrides mi‑hommes, mi‑bêtes en question(s) by Jacqueline Leclercq-Marx

“…The creatures in question are five different hybrids of mythology and fabulous natural history: sirens (uniquely in their aspect of fish women), centaurs, cynocephali or dog heads, and satyrs or half-man half-goat.Finally, we will ask whether there is a determining cultural factor that has favoured this kind of particularly transgressive slippage between human and animal boundaries, even if it has not always and in case every instance prevailed.…”
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Wild Wild West : une série au carrefour des affirmations dans les États-Unis du milieu des années 1960 by Jean Ruhlman

“…The series questions diverse constitutive elements of the mythology of the West, as it undermines the supposed virtues of the pioneering local communities as well as those asserted by the conquest of the West in its final stage after the Civil War. …”
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Myth-making and Uchronia: The Advent of a Fascist America in Nathanael West’s A Cool Million (1934) by Frank Conesa

“…I will argue that in the context of the Depression, A Cool Million emerges as a uchronia, an alternate history dramatizing the advent of a dictator who decides to exterminate all that is un-American, seizing upon Lemuel Pitkin’s martyr to forge and enunciate the official mythology of the new political regime.…”
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Le Bestiaire d’amour de Gustave Flaubert (1) by Loïc Windels

“…It is as if Flaubert did with Medieval legends what Freud would do a little later with Greek mythology. These observations and other similar ones have already been made, and there is no doubt that the reader who loves the dense and suggestive prose that is The Legend of Saint Julian is familiar with them. …”
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Phenomenology of Fire Image in the Poems of Akhavan Sales based on Gaston Bachelard Thoughts by Nematollah Iranzadeh, Shahnaz Arsh Akmal

“…He also believe on four nodes, in connection with the fire, that like Freud borrowed their names from mythology and scholars. This study relying on Bachelard ideas, tried to read and analysis the poems of Mehdi Akhavan Sales, to reach the fire and related concepts in images and poetic interpretations.…”
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Explication of screen culture by Dmitry Belyaev, Ksenia Aksenova

“…The acceleration of the screening dynamics of many cultural spheres and the formation of a special cultural continuum will be revealed, where all traditional social and personal activities are screened, creating a space of new authenticity and mythology. The framework of its architectonics is visually dynamic forms, often with interactive and hypertextual properties.  …”
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Le Théâtre de la mort de Tadeusz Kantor : un « gué secret » entre les vivants et les morts by Virginie Lachaise

“…It would be tempting to place the whole Tadeusz Kantor’s theater under the sign of the revenance and haunting, so everything is back : the characters, situations, objects, spaces, words and sounds, almost all returning the autobiographical sphere and the religious history and mythology of Poland, homeland of the artist. In the confined space of its Chamber of memory and imagination, the scene, the artist made a machine to view the past spring to the rhythm of ”heartbeat memory“ Children in tatters, the spectra of the family who do not allow themselves to forget, the scraps of old battles Cricot 2. …”
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Digging up Old Stories: How the Soviet Myths of Allied Intervention into the Russian North in 1918–1919 are used in the Context of Russia’s War in Ukraine. The Case of Mudyug Conce... by Natalia Golysheva

“… The mythology of the foreign interference into the Russian civil war goes to the heart of the memory politics in Putin’s Russia today, most recently in connection with the invasion in Ukraine. …”
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Reims/Durocortorum, cité des Rèmes : les principales étapes de la formation urbaine by Robert Neiss, François Berthelot, Jean-Marc Doyen, Philippe Rollet

“…For a long time, Reims’ history only began with Caesar and the Gallic Wars. Despite an ancient mythology claiming an origin as ancient as Rome’s, previous archaeological pieces of evidence weren’t reliable and were mainly ignored. …”
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Le rôle de l’intertexte et du palimpseste dans la création d’une Écosse mythique dans Waverley et Rob Roy de Walter Scott by Céline SABIRON

“…Politically, religiously, and socially divided, it is led to redefine its image by rewriting history through mythology. A myth is “a speech, a system of communication, a message”, Roland Barthes explains in Mythologies. …”
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Clash of Past and Present: Production of Historical and Representational Spaces in Oscar Wilde’s Poetry by Emre Çakar

“…Wilde used characters and places of ancient Greek mythology in his poems and developed a poetic sensitivity that focused on the real places and characters of the city. …”
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CHRISTOPANGANISM: A RELIGION IN SEARCH OF RELEVANCE OR A CONTEXTUALIZED CHRISTIANITY IN NIGERIA? by Amos Francis Dike

“…The study discovers that while the early missionaries left their converts battling with African traditional mythology. However, some contemporary Christians/pastors have an approach that can best be described as Christopaganism on order to bridge the gap created by western missionary exploit.Hence, while recognizing the existence of generational curses and magic, some Christian bodiesviews Christopaganismboth as a means of contextualizing Christianity and at the same time finding relevance. …”
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De l’ojibwa au dakota : pour une analyse transformationnelle des langues amérindiennes by Emmanuel Désveaux, Michel de Fornel

“…The aim of this paper is to propose a radical new typological approach to the diversity of Native languages, which is directly inspired by Lévi-Strauss’ Mythologiques and his concept of transformation. As with mythology, the semantical dimension of phenomena prevails. …”
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Russell and Wittgenstein: apprenticeship and other ‘crossings’ by V. V. Tselishchev

“…The article is devoted to the analysis of the traditional interpretation for the development of personal and intellectual relations between Russell and Wittgenstein in the light of the publication of materials from the Russell Archive. The mythology of the traditional interpretation of the development and collaboration of Wittgenstein and Russell is demonstrated and criticized. …”
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Phenomenon of androgyne as «post-gender»: psychological and philosophical analysis by E. Shishlova

“…The article examines the history and evolution of the phenomenon of androgyne in ancient mythology, medieval religious philosophy, modern philosophy, present-day psychological science and practice. …”
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Washington Irving, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. : le Moyen Âge aux origines by Delphine Louis-Dimitrov

“…It is the starting point of the American short story tradition and the bedrock of a national mythology; it also marks the first recognition of an American literary identity on the international scene. …”
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„... das Unendliche im Endlichen gebären ...“ by Susanne Gödde

“…The following contribution investigates the specific means of signification that Creuzer articulates for the categories ‘symbol’ and ‘myth’ in his Symbolik und Mythologie der alten Völker (Symbolism and Mythology of the Ancient Peoples). Three processes of signification can be distinguished: 1. the meaning of a myth or mythical figure is constituted by  postulating inter-religious relations, often with recourse to etymological or similar linguistic relations; and a previous truth or dogmatic system is inferred to lie ‘behind’ the narrative and its linguistic interrelations. …”
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Without Pictorial Detour: Benjamin, Mies and the Architectural Image by Lutz Robbers

“…Especially the architectural image, whether in the form of a printed drawing, photographic illustration, or an actual built object, appears to have been crucial for placing the history of media technologies (architecture being one of these media) in a constellation with the ‘archaic symbol-worlds of mythologies.’ If architecture is, as Benjamin claims in his initial notes for The Arcades Project, ‘the most important testimony to latent “mythology,”’ the architectural image might very well be the agent that causes the moment of awakening, the instance when a constellation between technology and ancient symbol worlds is formed. …”
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Une éducation sentimentale ou le roman d’amour de Salammbô by Geneviève Mondon

“…By intentionally putting aside the main issues of the novel, the historic war of Carthage, the mythic battle between Tanit and Moloch, great History and mythology, battles and massacres, the focus is on the sentimental adventure, which, as the author well knows, is a must in a historic novel.  …”
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